Thesis Title: Learning the Semantics of Structured Data Sources Advisor: Craig Knoblock Current position: TBD
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Thesis Title: Beyond Parallel Data: Decipherment for Better Quality Machine Translation Advisor: Kevin Knight Current position: Research Scientist, Facebook
Emilio Ferrara has been named as a VIP Influencer by IBM Watson Analytics. Emilio will be an invited guest at IBM Insight 2015 in Las Vegas. IBM Insight is the largest annual big data conference in the world, and will take place on October 29, 2015. http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/event/ibm-insight-2015
The website SocialMediaToday has an article describing Kristina’s group's “fascinating” work on how ideas spread through networks. It references the MIT Technology Review article that features the same work.
MIT Technology Review published an article on their website describing Kristina’s group’s recent work demonstrating the "majority illusion” in social networks.
The escort database that combats human trafficking
Wired UK has published an article featuring the DIG project and specifically mentioning Pedro Szekely and Craig Knoblock as well as Karma. The article notes how useful the tools being developed can be to combat human trafficking in the UK, just like in the US.
Email is an essential communication tool, but our understanding of emailing behavior has been limited to small-scale surveys. In a paper to be presented at the WWW conference in May, Kristina Lerman and Farshad Kooti from USC/ISI and Yahoo researchers have addressed this gap in understanding by studying emailing behavior of 2 million people, who exchanged 16 billion emails over a period of several months.
Aram has been promoted to Research Associate Professor of Computer Science.
In announcing this to the Institute, Executive Director Prem Natarajan noted that Aram has a long and growing string of accomplishments to his credit. In particular, his recent work in the areas of machine learning and social media analysis has received significant attention from the greater professional community and has advanced ISI’s reputation in those communities.
This year our Executive Director, Prem Natarajan, established a new institute-wide award, “The Information Sciences Institute Achievement Award”. It will be given annually to ISIers who have made a contribution to the Institute that we believe will have a significant and lasting impact.
Emilio Ferrara has been named as a VIP Influencer by IBM Watson Analytics. Emilio will be an invited guest at IBM Insight 2015 in Las Vegas. IBM Insight is the largest annual big data conference in the world, and will take place on October 29, 2015. 
The website SocialMediaToday has an article describing Kristina’s group's “fascinating” work on how ideas spread through networks. It references the MIT Technology Review article that features the same work.
MIT Technology Review published an article on their website describing Kristina’s group’s recent work demonstrating the "majority illusion” in social networks.
PC Magazine just published an article featuring the research of Wei-Min Shen and his robotics group